are almost 100 years old in that beautiful green. that's from the original copper. but that is also what makes them attractive to thieves. michael staddler works from home most of the time, which is why he comes down to the lake sometimes twice a day. >> sunshine, a little nature for people. and that it will make me feel a part of the community. >> reporter: he and others who regularly walk or run around the lake have noticed some of the light posts and the string lights are missing. >> and to feel more confidentable if the lights are up there and that it does concern me. the light spaces seem safer. the dark spaces, they seem like places you could get away with stuff. >> reporter: there are 126 lamp posts that are holding up more than 4,000 string lights that will wrap around the more than three-mile lake. they were first installed in 1925 and are affectionately called the necklace of lights. >> the lake is our crown jewel.

i do remember when they put up the lights and it was so beautiful. i love driving by it. it is magical. >> reporter: she's a volunteer with the lake merritt breakfast club. a community group that cares for the lake and the necklace of lights. >> i took great pride in them. then when i started noticing they were down, i was traumatized. >> yep. >> reporter: today oakland public works employees were out at the lake putting up temporary poles and lights. a city of ten original poles are damaged or missing. some of the poles came down when trees fell on the lights during the recent storms. the others were vandalized, cut off at the base, and wires had been ripped out or damaged from 34 curb electrical boxes, possibly to steal the copper. >> replicate what they had to make it out of a metal that is not something that thieves would like. we can't keep up our beautiful jewel, then, you know, hope is lost sort to speak. >> i think the lake is an

incredible amenity for oakland. something i love about living here. i think anything to do to make it better is worth the investment for sure. >> reporter: because the original lamp posts were installed in 1925. the city can't just order more. they have to be custom made at a price of almost $15,000 a piece. >> well the safety and vandalism concerns at lake merritt come a few days after enough signatures were secured to trigger a recall election against the alameda county district attorney. critics have accused d.a. pamela price of being soft on crime and light on the charges she levies against criminal suspects. >> the fade of the 12 protesters arrested yesterday during this shutdown of 880 in oakland remains up in the air. the district attorney pamela price says her office is still waiting for them to send her case information. the freeway along the golden gate bridge where they were shut down for hours by protesters demanding an end to all u.s. aid to israel. in a statement, price

said her office supports the right to protest, but that public safety should never be compromised in exercising the first amendment right of free speech. as for those 26 people arrested on the golden gate bridge, they were released yesterday. san francisco's d.a. is looking to pursue the false charges. now asking any drivers who got stuck on the bridge during the protest to give a statement to the chp. okay, within the last hour, an arrest was made in the investigation of the torching of the self-driving car in san francisco's chinatown. it happened back in february when a group of people surrounded that vehicle. one of them shot fireworks inside that car. well this afternoon, the d.a.'s office announced a 14-year-old has been charged in that case. today in san jose, the

alleged drug dealers -- let's get that back. well the san francisco sheriff's department is now lifting the lockdown at a city jail. the sheriff says the facility on 7th street has seen a spike in violence with the jail in san bruno a partial lock and still in place. and that facility, it's expected to be lifted some time this week. also in san francisco, you may remember a toilet making national headlines over its hefty price tag. well it is now open for business sort to speak. the bathroom opened up to the public in the town square. it had an estimated price tag of $1.7. but they say the official amount came to around $200,000. sounds like a bargain, right? and after they received contributions from a company.

california keeps a collection from all babies born in the state. but privacy and transparency questions have plagued that e request for years. coming up at 5:30, how a decade's long investigation into the issue has prompted a new push for change. after a decade at the top of the nba, the warriors are facing some major questions about their future. >> the unfortunate loss to the kings making things clear. vern glenn joins us right now as the big discussion today into what the future holds for steph, draymond, and klay. this is raw right now of just sitting here, figuring out if i want to watch it on april 16. for the first time in three years, the warriors will be watching the first round of the playoffs at home. after a slow start to the season, the dubs

finished strong to get to 46 wins. but it wasn't enough to avoid a play-in game. >> i can count six losses to you right off the top of my head, like we gave away. >> you can't win it every year, but there is so much belief that we could make something this season and keep our hopes alive. >> reporter: the warriors front office have some tough decisions to make this summer. klay thompson will be an unrestricted free agent in the off season. so the question on everyone's mind is he coming back? >> to be honest, i haven't given it much thought. >> we want them back. obviously there is business at hand. that has to be addressed with klay's representatives and, you know, mike and joe. but what klay has meant to this franchise as good as he still is, we desperately want him back. >> oh man they won't do great by klay. where they have done right by all of us. >> you know, not with those two

guys that they want to win and that is what i'm worried about. >> it's up to them. at the end of the day, what happens, it's all gravy. it's been a special run. >> the warriors are going to offer thompson something. he earned over $43 million this season. yet this team is going to have to find more athletic players. thompson was the greatest compliment to curry for 12 years. but younger teams like denver, sacramento, oklahoma city, they are not going away. it will be good enough for a fifth seed. now it is barely enough for a play-in game. >> it was tough to watch last night, vern, it really was. and you want them to do great as they usually do. >> all right, thanks, vern. meanwhile an nba player has been banned after reports he bet on nba games. an investigation found the toronto raptor, porter, gave insider

information to gamblers. limiting his participation in games for betting purposes, even bet on his own team to lose. the investigation is still ongoing. all right, i'm anne makovec. a baby died from fentanyl poisoning in san jose. today the alleged drug dealers who were also the little girl's babysitters were charged with murder. these are the photos from inside the courtroom where paige vitale and phillip ortega were arraigned. the d.a. says they babysat for 18-month-old winter doe, and also provided her parents with a steady supply of opioids. little winter died at her home last august. soon after her parents made history as the first in santa clara county to be charged with murdering their own child with drugs. derek rayo and kelly richardson waited more than 12 hours after winter died to call 911. the coroner found the toddler had 15 times the lethal

amount of fentanyl in her blood. >> truly the cause of death is the deliberate, dangerous, reckless actions of these four individuals that demonstrated a conscious and deliberate disregard for human life. >> investigators say both the babysitters and parents used drugs, and that paraphernalia was found around the house. well still ahead, the boeing backlash, a whistle blower alleging the company took dangerous shortcuts. >> effectively new details are emerging before a fire truck smashes into a northern california home. the investigation. you see 20 years of work and progress. then it's wiped out in less than a day. layer of high clouds has spread across the bay area

throughout the day. despite the filter in the sunshine, temperatures have warmed up than where we topped out yesterday. how long can we keep the warm weather in place? details coming up

well, this was quite the scene in stockton after a fire truck crashed into the home sending one person to the hospital in critical condition. authorities tell us the fire truck had its sirens blaring while responding to a call. witnesses say the impact sent the fire truck all across the intersection where it then crashed into another car before ramming into a home. one other person was in critical condition. a live look now at our bay area airports. flights from alaska airlines are in the skies again after being grounded this morning. the faa ground stop was caused by problems with a software update. the software helps with

weight and balance. one passenger from portland was stuck for hours on the tarmac. >> they said their ground system was down, that it completely crashed and they were just trying to reboot it. and they were not able to. so they kept like probably for the last hour and a half, we didn't hear anything. eventually they opened up the door to let people off the planes. >> most of the passengers we spoke with said they did not mind the delay if it meant they had a safe flight. >> yeah. i mean safety is always first. so i'm not going to complain if i'm a little bit late to make things safer. >> the grounding lasted for an hour. alaska airlines warned customers to expect delays throughout the day, but check out airports. checking out airports, it looks like the majority of the flights are on time. a new opera is coming to san jose, creating quite the buzz. >> the opera is sung completely in spanish. some lucky students got a preview of the show before opening weekend. take a look.

>> yeah, children were welcomed to a special dress rehearsal. i think i said that right. telling the story of an opera singer who returns home, hoping to reunite with her lover who disappeared in the jungle. >> it's opera san jose's first performed on the main stage. >> children immediately understand the power of music and they don't hold back, so they react to this realism. >> reporter: the opera opens downtown san jose. >> it will be in town until may 5. switching gears, let's check in with paul heggen. are you an opera guy? >> no. [ laughter ] >> i was like hm. that went off like a balloon. >> you never know. >> i like classical music and

going to the symphony. i like the instrumentals. i don't like lyrics along with it. >> i understand. i understand. >> personal presence. you like opera, go for it. >> i was just curious, no judgment. >> go for it. [ laughter ] >> hey, whatever gets you going. >> exactly. the weather is perfect for it. let's bring it back to the forecast here as we head into the next few days. we'll keep the warm weather around for most of the bay area. a nice look down towards the golden gate. looking in that direction. not seeing any fog sneaking through the golden gate just yet. it will be confined throughout the rest of tonight. let's take a look at the weather headlines as we head into tonight through tomorrow morning and the maps appear to be stuck. okay, just very slowly out of the picture into the bushes. we will see if we could get things kicked and get the maps to advance forward. everything just gets stuck once in a while. it's live tv. i keep saying that every time we have technical

problem, but yeah, no problem here. let's get it to go, there we go. hopefully this better be worth waiting for. just a few patches of fog by early tomorrow morning. we will see that giving way to a mix of a lot of sunshine, filtered sunshine like we've seen for the past couple of days. temperatures are going to warm up once again as we would head into the afternoon hours. another day of substantially above average temperatures for tomorrow. then well, it will be a dry weekend, but we're not going to see temperatures quite as warm on friday, saturday, sunday. the more substantial changes will hold off until the middle of next week when the rain chances will head our way. looking to the east from the mark hopkins hotel. it really didn't slow the warmup at all. still 80 degrees. upper 70s in santa rosa. upper 60s in oakland and san francisco. unseasonably warm temperatures across the board. let's check out futurecast and see how it handles the fog as we would

head in there tomorrow morning. seeing it develop, we will be seeing mostly clear skies to begin the day, filtering the sunshine had towards midday on thursday. temperatures dropping down to the low 50s, down to the upper 40s. temperatures will warm up to several degrees above average by tomorrow afternoon. back into the lower 80s. san jose is the warm spot. right around 80 degrees inland and also 80 degrees for fremont down the peninsula. now along the coast, you've been cooler for the past several days. you should make it up to the 60s, but just short in san francisco with highs reaching the mid-70s in oakland and to around 80 degrees for the north bay. but still really nice mid april weather. the ten-day temperature outlook would show the warm, not as warm

conditions over the weekend with a substantial drop. tuesday, continuing through the rest of the last full week of april is actually settling in. the next chance for rain. day-by-day rain chances where they won't be off the charts with a little rain chance by next wednesday and thursday. still seven, eight days away. something that we can get closer. the warmest day will be tomorrow. still around or above 80 degrees for most parts of the bay area. still very pleasant throughout the weekend. and more cloud cover will start to move in by tuesday and wednesday for the first time in a little while. but for the very last day of the seven-day forecast, and we're not saying showers are likely, just a chance for showers for next wednesday. so a long way to go between now and then. enjoy the rarity for 2024. a dry weekend. temperatures should be above for most of the bay area this weekend except right along the

coast. it should be in the low 60s. not much to complain about. well the work to save an endangered species. the people working to fight climate change and keep life on our planet from going extinct. a couple of times i just cried. plus california has dna samples from millions of babies on file. the emerging battle over

well leading up to earth day, the dedication, creativity, the heart of people trying to protect life right here on earth. >> today we're looking at the threat posed to wildlife by increasingly destructive hurricanes. one of those species at risk, the puerto rican parrot. one of the more

critically endangered birds in the world. >> and introducing us to the people trying to save them. >> reporter: emerald green like the forest that shelters them. this is the endangered parrot. it teeters on the brink of extinction. >> it is 4:45 a.m. this morning we're going to witness the release of the puerto rican parrot from captivity out into the field. >> reporter: the people of the u.s. fish and wildlife service are excited to release ten birds that they have raised in captivity. >> we're going to open the cage here in ten to 15 minutes. so everybody needs to be at their position. >> this is the way i think i'm contributing to my island. >> reporter: eloy pose flores runs the parrot recovery program. telling me feeders have been set up outside the enclosure to encourage them to leave it. each bird is wearing a tracking collar that will

eventually break off. >> they will shoot it out of the cage? >> hopefully not. this is called a self-relief. we open the door before it arrives. after the doors are open, we would allow them to fly wherever they want. >> very casual? >> exactly. >> reporter: in puerto rico, when birds lose their habitat to land development, it limits how they can live, find food, and raise their young. since 1970, a loss of $2.9 billion adult birds in north america, a decrease of almost 30%. the future is looking a bit brighter for these birds. a couple of brave parrots are curious, taking cautious steps towards the outside feeder. a quick meal and they're off to join their friends on the outside. becoming wild birds.

>> i have wanted to be a biologist ever since growing up in western tennessee. >> reporter: tom white has been working since the early 90s, helping to rebuild the population until 197 with hurricane marina. it could you said historic rain and landfalls. it was five times more likely because of climate change. making super charged hurricanes a major threat to survival. before the storm hit, the birds were rushed into concrete shelters. tom video, as they cared for the birds. >> late this afternoon, we were able to attack the birds from being brushed and the question

of hours. >> reporter: the breeding birds all survived. but crews could not reach the wild birds out in remote parts of the jungle that were starving from the lack of vegetation. this was the only parrot that lived. >> i'll admit a couple of times i just cried. you see 20 years of work and progress and then it's wiped out in less than a day. >> reporter: since maria, the team encourages newly released birds to mass much closer an emergency. there is now a growing population of 300 wild parrots on the island. >> we're the only species on the planet that could recognize their own environmental damage and repair it. >> it is a lot of work. but

what's happening shows us that we can, as humans, try to repair some of the damage that we've done. >> and several endangered or threatened birds live right here in the bay area. >> that includes the california condor and the spotted owl. where she been digging into the collection of dna samples from all newborn babies in the state. now a new push to lift the secrecy surrounding the program. >> people have the right to choose how it's being used. dealing with sky high insurance rates or no insurance at all.

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illinois— the middle of everything. right now at 5:30, frightening testimony on capitol hill from a boeing whistle blower. a new plan to provide relief for homeowners. we are investigating how california handles genetic materials collected from newborns. genetic companies need to get your permission before they store or sell your dna. >> your state government doesn't. california stores dna samples from every baby born

here. in response to our decade's long investigation, lawmakers are pushing for transparency. julie watts joins us. >> reporter: we started investigating this in my early days at kpix. a portion of your dna is likely in the state's massive biobank. but now after a decade of reporting on this issue, the state is suddenly refusing to tell us who else has access to those samples. it's the secrecy that's raising concerns. >> reporter: